Legendary rock superstar David Bowie died this week at the age of 69, after an 18-month long battle with cancer. Bowie’s health problems had been such a well-kept secret, that throughout his declining health, he was recording his final album, Blackstar, which dropped on his 69th birthday. Two days later, he was gone. His passing took the world by such surprise that it literally broke the internet—so many people were streaming David Bowie albums all day long that it was causing critical internet traffic failures in Chicago and Atlanta.
